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You don't know that though. Not within the terms of the database. If you did, they'd have a numeric salary and not NULL.

That's entirely the point. Database "logic", when combined with NULLs, returns answers that we really know are not true. I don't mean "within the terms of the database". p = p is true, regardless of whether or not a poorly designed query language says otherwise.